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Thread ID: 90940 2008-06-21 01:37:00 Network Equipment Brands stormdragon (6013) Press F1
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680710 2008-06-21 01:37:00 Hi Guys

Quick question.

Are the likes of CNet or TPLink any good for basic network equipment like Hub's and Print Servers?

Cheers
stormdragon (6013)
680711 2008-06-21 05:35:00 Its ok. The trendy brand is Linksys though. They are a division of Cisco. pctek (84)
680712 2008-06-21 06:04:00 Pretty much anything will work fine for a switch/hub

But data throughput won't be as fast for a home setup.

eg; most cheap full-duplex switches have 200Mbit bandwidth divided by the amount of ports - whereas a more powerful version will have 200Mbit dedicated to each port - for a total throughput of several Gigabits...

For sharing internet and basic use etc the cheapies are fine - but start getting into heavy file transfers from several PCs at once and you'll notice the speed is terrible
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